Laser-induced ablation of polymers using a patterned dopant generated from a leuco-dye precursor via flood exposure: A “portable conformable mask” approach to laser ablation of PMMA at 351 nm

A two-stage laser ablation process is described, which initially generates a laser-light absorbing image from a conventional photolithographic mask via a UV-flood exposure step. For this purpose a colorless precursor of a dye, i.e., itsleuco form, is imbedded into the polymer to be ablated as a dopant. For poly(methyl methacrylate) as such a polymer, triphenylmethanol, the leuco precursor for the corresponding triphenylmethyl dye represents a good choice for ablation with excimer lasers operating at the wavelength 351 nm. In this fashion conventional masks and exposure tools of UV-photolithography may be used in combination with laser ablation. The resulting images are characterized by a good contrast and reasonably sharp contours. The photochemical mechanism and additional aspects of this two-step process, which resembles the portable conformal mask approach of photolithography, are outlined.     

Synthesis of aromatic derivatives of 1,5-benzodiazepine in the reaction of 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine with chalcone dibromides

The reaction of 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine with 4-nitro-4-R-chalcone dibromides affords the corresponding -(2-amino-4-nitroanilino)chalcones; x-ray diffraction data indicate that these are the Z-isomers. Experiments have been perfortned to determine the conditions required for cyclization of these compounds into 2, 4-diaryl7(8)-nitro-1, 5-benzodiazepines. In the solid phase or in ethanol solutions, these latter compounds exist primarily in the 3H tautomeric form; but in DMSO solutions, the 1H form predominates.Khar'kov State University, Khar'kov 310077. Institute of Heteroorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117813. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 7, pp. 950–958, July, 1995. Original article submitted June 30, 1994; revision submitted April 3, 1995.Deceased     

The development of a versatile field program for measuring tritium in “real-time”

Robust sample handling and liquid scintillation counting (LSC) procedures have been developed to routinely monitor tritium in the field relative to the 20,000 pCi/L drinking water standard. This procedure allows tritium to be monitored hourly during 24 hour drilling operations at depths in the saturated zone potentially contaminated by sub-surface nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site. Using retrofitted, shock hardened, vibration damped counters and strict analytical protocols, tritium may be measured rapidly in the field under hostile conditions. Concentration standards and dead tritium backgrounds are prepared weekly in a central laboratory and delivered to remote drilling locations where they are recounted daily as a check on counter efficiency and calibration. Portable LSC counters are located in trailers and powered off a battery pack and line filter fed by mobile generator. The samples are typically groundwaters mixed with drilling fluids returned after circulation through a drill string. Fluids are aerated and de-foamed, filtered, mixed with scintillation cocktail and dark adapted before counting. Real-time monitoring affords drilling and field personnel early warning against intercepting down-gradient plumes of radioactivity. For routine operations, the tritium activity may not exceed a 10,000 pCi/L threshold.     

Characterization of two irradiation positions for fission track dating at the Lena Triga Mark II reactor

In the present paper the use of two natural uranium dosimeters is described. Data are compared with fluence values obtained by using NIST glass standards and the traditional activation of metal foils. Finally an example is reported for application of neutron dosimetry to the dating of the Fish Canyon Tuff age standard.     

The tangent bundle of a Calabi-Yau manifold-deformations and restriction to rational curves

The tangent bundle _X of a Calabi-Yau threefoldX is the only known example of a stable bundle with non-trivial restriction to any rational curve onX. By deforming the direct sum of _X and the trivial line bundle one can try to obtain new examples. We use algebro-geometric techniques to derive results in this direction. The relation to the finiteness of rational curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds is discussed.     

The limit of detection in transversal photothermal deflection spectroscopy with light scattering samples

The limit of detection for the 4,6 dinitro-orthocresol (DNOC) pesticide, including small latex particles as light scattering samples in water as suspending medium, has been determined for the transversal photothermal deflection technique. The results where compared to conventional spectrophotometry. In the photothermal deflection experiments performed with a continuous Ar⁺-excitation beam (=363.8 nm) a LOD of 0.8 g/l is achieved for the DNOC in water.Awarded poster prize     

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Investigation of the electrochemical production and doping of soluble electrically conducting poly(3-methyl-4-phenylthiophene)

The electrochemical production and doping of soluble, as well as the physicochemical properties of a soluble electrically conducting polymer based on 3-methyl-4-phenylthiophene were studied.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éxperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 143–148, March–April, 1993.The authors would like to express gratitude to the State Committee of the Ukraine on questions of science and technology for financial support for this work within the framework of the State Scientific and Technical Program 7.1. Materials for Electronic Technology, as well as to V. P. Kandilenko and V. Ya. Chernov for aid in recording the fluorescence spectra of the P3M4PT films.